{"id":1006674,"date":"2026-05-04T10:07:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006674"},"modified":"2026-05-04T10:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:53:14","slug":"big-tech-pours-billions-into-ai-while-thousands-pack-their-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/04\/big-tech-pours-billions-into-ai-while-thousands-pack-their-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Tech pours billions into AI while thousands pack their bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week saw Big Tech announce its results for the March quarter of 2026. The latest round of earnings from Silicon Valley royalty paints the picture of an industry in the middle of a significant and costly transformation. <\/p>\n<p>Revenue was up across the board. Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Alphabet all topped Wall Street forecasts on Wednesday. Amazon reported net sales of $181.5 billion, up 17% on-year. Microsoft&#8217;s revenues came in at $82.89 billion, up 18%. Meta and Alphabet also beat analyst estimates, with Alphabet boosted in part by strong cloud growth. The Google parent&#8217;s total revenue rose 22% to $109.9 billion in the first quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week saw Big Tech announce its results for the March quarter of 2026. The latest round of earnings from Silicon Valley royalty paints the picture of an industry in the middle of a significant and costly transformation. Revenue was up across the board. Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Alphabet all topped Wall Street forecasts on Wednesday. Amazon reported net sales of $181.5 billion, up 17% on-year. Microsoft&#8217;s revenues came in at $82.89 billion, up 18%. Meta and Alphabet also beat analyst estimates, with Alphabet boosted in part by strong cloud growth. The Google parent&#8217;s total revenue rose 22% to $109.9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}